Dystopian narrator: Evelyn

Dystopian narrator, cool, controlled, and defiant

Prompt: A cool, steady female voice for dystopian fiction. Her clear mid-register is controlled and quietly defiant, reporting horror with restraint, intimate and unflinching. There's a they-are-always-watching tension in her tone. The sound of a narrator who makes a rationed loaf of bread feel like an act of rebellion.

Script: They came for the books first. Then the music, the gatherings. The small unmonitored corners where a person could simply think. By the time they came for the words themselves, we had forgotten how to protest. Because we had forgotten the words for it.